When a British minister tells reporters that John Cantlie is still alive in February 2019, the search is on again. What does the British government know? Anthony Loyd shares his conclusions.

In 2012, British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since. In this new series, the Times’ war correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of the missing hostage.

Hosts: Manveen Rana and Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.

Clips: CNN, Sky, Voice of America, Channel 4, ABC.

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Anthony retraces John Cantlie’s steps on the streets of Mosul, the Iraqi city where John was last seen alive.

In 2012, British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since. In this new series, the Times’ war correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of the missing hostage.

Hosts: Manveen Rana and Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.

Clips: CNN and BBC.

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As one by one the British and American hostages are killed by their captors, John Cantlie emerges in a series of Islamic State propaganda films, ‘Lend Me Your Ears’. His new role keeps him alive. It also attracts questions. Is the hostage becoming a willing messenger?

In 2012, British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since. In this new series, the Times’ war correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of the missing hostage.

Hosts: Manveen Rana and Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.

Clips: CNN, CBS, EWTN, USA Today, NBC, ABC, EuroNews, eNCA.

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Some of the hostages who were held with John Cantlie describe what life was like inside their prison cell, under the watch of brutal Isis guards. Their captors had a special role in mind for John… but why did Isis pick him?

In 2012, British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since. In this new series, the Times’ war correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of the missing hostage.

Hosts: Manveen Rana and Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.

Clips: Acceleration TV, Bikes Aloud, Enduro Africa.

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For Anthony this story is personal as he reveals that he himself was captured while reporting on the Syrian conflict. What is it like to be a journalist covering war? And what does his experience tell us about John Cantlie's kidnap?

In 2012, British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since. In this new series, the Times’ war correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of the missing hostage.

Hosts: Manveen Rana and Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.

Clips: BBC and CNN.

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John Cantlie is missing and there are no leads in the case. The hunt is on for his whereabouts, when a rapper shows up in a Belgian prison saying he has information to share. What can this man tell us about John’s location and the conditions they both experienced as Isis hostages?

In 2012, British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since. In this new series, the Times’ war correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of the missing hostage.

Hosts: Manveen Rana and Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.

Clips: Ready4jerri.

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Anthony investigates details of John Cantlie and his colleague James Foley’s abduction in 2012. He speaks to those who were with them and explores possible reasons the men were targeted. 

In 2012, British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since. In this new series, the Times’ war correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of the missing hostage.

Hosts: Manveen Rana and Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.

Clips: BBC, Al Jazeera, Guardian.

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Anthony Loyd begins his investigation into the disappearance of journalist John Cantlie, who was taken by Isis in 2012. He explores the events of a prior kidnap and asks: what compelled John to return to Syria after his first escape? 

In 2012, British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since. In this new series, the Times’ war correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of the missing hostage.

Hosts: Manveen Rana and Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.

Clips: BBC, 5Live, CNN, NBC, Broadcasting House (BBC Radio 4).

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In 2012, British photojournalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State. While his fellow hostages were released or murdered, he remained captive. Then, a series of Isis propaganda videos emerged, fronted by Cantlie. He hasn’t been seen since. In this new series, the Times’ war correspondent Anthony Loyd sets out to investigate the life - and fate - of the missing hostage.

This series was first released on 24 June 2022

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We meet CJ Davis’s mother Keisha McLeod and hear about the promising early years and the struggles of a young boy who, in his final 18 months, was sucked into an underworld of drug deals and gang crime. 

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: BBC, ITV, UK Drill YouTube channel

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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Lifting the lid on a national crisis of child criminal exploitation. Accounts from CJ’s girlfriend, Bella, and his mother give rise to questions: how did he come to be arrested for carrying a knife? What were CJ’s connections to drug dealing? And, crucially, where did the authorities miss opportunities to intervene?

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: BBC, ITV, UK Drill YouTube channel

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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We dive into the brutal reality of London’s gangland, where imprisoned but still powerful leaders Young Dizz and CB preside over the rival Beckton Boys and Woodgrange gangs. CJ’s name appears on a leaked police “gang matrix”, giving rise to the chilling question: Was CJ Davis a targeted victim of this deadly turf war?

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: UK Drill YouTube channel, Olympic YouTube Channel, BBC3

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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The September afternoon in 2017 when CJ Davis was shot dead in broad daylight in Forest Gate, East London. An anonymous witness recounts the harrowing moment she heard gunshots and rushed to CJ’s side in an attempt to save his life. 

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: UK Drill YouTube channel, Olympic YouTube Channel, BBC3

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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Three years after CJ Davis’ murder, John Simpson interviews the lead detective working on the case, whose team continues to grapple with an impenetrable “code of silence”. Expert Craig Pinkney also takes us into the complex world of drill music to explore its connection to gang culture and, perhaps, to CJ’s death. 

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: UK Drill YouTube channel, Olympic YouTube Channel, BBC3

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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In this bonus episode, CJ’s father, Corey Sr., speaks publicly about his son’s death for the very first time. We also meet close family friend Dwayne Brooks, who was witness to the Stephen Lawrence murder. 

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: BBC, ITV, Sky News, ITN

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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Five years after CJ Davis was shot dead in East London, John Simpson is back in Newham to confront the stagnant investigation. He brokers a powerful meeting between CJ's grieving mother and the woman who found him, revealing the pain that persists as the murder remains unsolved.

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: BBC, ITV, Sky News, ITN

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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News breaks that a suspect has been arrested in connection with CJ’s murder. John Simpson speaks with CJ’s mother, Keisha, about this pivotal moment in her fight for justice.

Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

Host: John Simpson, crime correspondent, The Times

Clips: BBC, ITV, Sky News, ITN

Original music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk

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Corey Junior Davis was just 14 when he was shot dead on the afternoon of 4 September 2017. In this series, crime correspondent John Simpson exposes the systemic failings, rivalries and silence surrounding CJ’s killer.

This series was first released on 31 July, 2020.

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In July 2023, almost 20 years after he was sentenced to life in jail, Andrew Malkinson's conviction is quashed. We visit Andy a day after the Court of Appeal overturned his rape conviction following the revelation that new DNA evidence implicated another man in the crime. 

Host: Will Roe 

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Finally, a door opens. The CCRC refers Andy’s case to the Court of Appeal, and police arrest another man. After 17 long years, could Andy finally be vindicated?

Host: Will Roe 

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What happens when the music stops? With insurers retreating and Lex Greensill’s tangled web of influence unravelling fast, only one thing’s for certain - many others stand to be exposed.

Guest: John Collingridge, Deputy business editor at The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

Clips used: GFG Alliance, Parliament TV, Sky News, BBC News.

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Sanjeev Gupta styled himself as the saviour of Britain’s struggling steel industry, but his empire was fuelled by Greensill money. Deep in Britain’s industrial heartlands, we step inside a house of cards.

Guest: John Collingridge, Deputy business editor at The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

Clips used: Channel 4 News, GFG Alliance.

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Greensill Capital is on the brink - until it lands a lifeline helping to run a vital payroll app for NHS staff. David Aaronovitch uncovers how the company secured taxpayer-backed schemes even as its risky finance model raised eyebrows in the corridors of power.

Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent for The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

Clips used: Sky News, Channel 4 News.

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Calls, texts and elbow bumps. As a global pandemic takes hold, former prime minister David Cameron is now working for Greensill Capital, dusting down old contact books and making calls to old colleagues at the very top of a government in crisis. 

Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent, The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

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How did a little-known Australian banker end up with the ear of a Prime Minister? David Aaronovitch recounts the improbable rise of Lex Greensill from a sugar cane farm in central Queensland to high-flying advisor with an office in 10 Downing Street.

Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent, The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

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Behind the closed doors of Whitehall in central London Lex Greensill promised to revolutionise the way money moves through the highest levels of British business. Instead, he built an empire on financial smoke.

David Aaronovitch follows the trail of charm and deception leading from the City deep into the heart of the British government.

Presented by David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

This series was first released on 24 May 2021.

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As the bombs fell, Hans Globke stayed behind his desk, signing papers that sent Jews to their deaths across Europe. Oliver Moody uncovers how Globke’s quiet survival allowed him to emerge unscathed from the ashes of the Third Reich, and return to power in a new Germany.

Host: Oliver Moody, Berlin correspondent, The Times & The Sunday Times

Clips: AP, ARD, The Eichmann TrialEN.

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Hans Globke is the forgotten Nazi. The Times and The Sunday Times’s Berlin correspondent Oliver Moody traces the story of the unremarkable bureaucrat who quietly laid the legal basis for the Holocaust, positioning himself at the centre of a deadly web of influence - then came back to build the foundations of modern Germany 

Host: Oliver Moody, Berlin correspondent, The Times & The Sunday Times

Clips: BBC, PVT.Snafu, DailyMotion and ARD.

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Uncovering the story of Hans Globke, the Nazi bureaucrat who helped lay the legal basis for the Holocaust, then came back to build the foundations of modern Germany.

Presented by Oliver Moody, the Berlin correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times.

This series was first released on 4 March 2021.

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Emily meets the former wife of another suspect in the original investigation. Police failures loom as we learn of other men - some with violent histories - who were barely investigated.

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Actress: Eliza Marsland.

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Cracks are showing in the case against Andy. Emily meets witnesses who claimed they felt pressure to testify, and learns of failures at the Criminal Cases Review Commission that may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice. 

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

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Years into Andy’s prison sentence, new forensic techniques reveal the presence of another man’s DNA at the crime scene. Emily investigates the implications of this and the challenges of reopening a long-closed case.

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Audio from HMP North Sea Camp courtesy of Two Step Films.

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Eyewitness evidence is powerful. But it is not infallible. Emily draws on wrongful convictions abroad to explore how memory and trauma can complicate justice and what this might mean for Andy’s conviction.

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

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No DNA. Contradictory descriptions. Witnesses with hidden criminal pasts. Andy’s trial is fraught with controversy. As the jury returns a guilty verdict, Emily unpicks the flaws in the judicial system that can send an innocent man down.

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

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In 2003, a 33-year-old mother of two was raped and left for dead during a horrific attack in Salford, Greater Manchester. A security guard called Andrew Malkinson was arrested and later sentenced to life - despite insisting he was innocent.

Reporter Emily Dugan explores how a seemingly ordinary man became caught up in a shocking crime.

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

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A mother of two is brutally attacked, but was the wrong man sent to prison?

Andrew Malkinson was wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape and sentenced to life in prison. The Sunday Times social affairs correspondent Emily Dugan investigates the flawed trial, unreliable witness testimony, police failings and breakthrough DNA evidence that turned the case on its head.

This series was first released on 24 September, 2021.

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Finally facing interrogation, David Cameron and Lex Greensill appear before MPs. Between their testimony and half-apologies, we finally come to the truth - that the scandal surrounding Greensill Capital didn’t just bring down one company, it brought down British politics as a whole.

Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Correspondent for The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch, former columnist for The Times.

Clips used: Parliament TV, Sky News.

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Adnan Oktar is behind bars but some of his followers still believe. Louise meets his devotees, listens to their claims of injustice and comes to terms with the power Oktar still wields from behind bars. 

Host: Louise Callaghan, Middle East Correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Clips: Al-Jazeera, CNBC, Sky News, CNN.

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The fortress walls begin to crumble. Survivors describe suffering sexual abuse and financial crimes while cult insiders help the authorities bring Adnan Oktar down. 

Accompanied by a former ‘kitten’, Louise revisits the night the police finally descended on Oktar’s hilltop compound

Host: Louise Callaghan, Middle East Correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Clips: Ulusal Kanal

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Away from the TV cameras, Adnan Oktar reigns over a den of secrecy. Louise meets the male enforcers he used to keep it under control. 

Oktar’s ‘lions’ reveal the hierarchy, rules, and ruthless methods used to enforce loyalty to the cult. And a woman who says she was sexually abused by Oktar describes how loyalty comes with a terrifying cost.

Host: Louise Callaghan, Middle East Correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Clips: A9TV, ABC News.

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Meet Adnan Oktar, the Turkish televangelist who’s rarely spotted without an entourage of surgically enhanced young women he calls his ‘kittens’. 

After Oktar is sentenced to over 1,000 years in prison, Louise tries to get to grips with one of the strangest stories she has ever covered.

Host: Louise Callaghan, Middle East correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Clips: CNN TÜRK, TV100, Anadolu Agency, CBS News, Sky News, A9TV.

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The leader of Turkey’s most powerful cult, Adnan Oktar, was sentenced to over 1,000 years in prison in January 2021. 

The Sunday Times’s Middle East correspondent Louise Callaghan steps into his weird world of ‘kittens’, ‘lions’, and televangelism to reveal its dark heart.

This series was first published on 28 January, 2022.

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Pennant money reshaped not only Jamaica, but also modern Britain. In Wales, it financed the vast Penrhyn slate quarry, built villages, and paid for the castle that April-Louise visits alongside her father, Gil. Together, they face the portraits of men who enslaved their ancestors, and ask what it would take for Britain to stop looking away.

Host: Brenna Daldorph

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April-Louise Pennant’s grandparents were part of the Windrush Generation, emigrating from the Caribbean to Britain in the 1950s. Visiting a local university archive to discover the significance of her Welsh surname, she discovers the Jamaica Papers - a collection of plantation records donated by the Pennants, which reveal a confronting truth.

Host: Brenna Daldorph

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Arguments still rage about Britain’s role in the slave trade, but the evidence of that dark past is written across the faces of some of the country’s wealthiest stately homes. Journalists Brenna Daldorph and David Aaronovitch face facts to look behind the grandeur and gold-leaf exteriors of one - Penrhyn Castle in North Wales - to uncover the brutal foundation on which it was built.

Hosts: Brenna Daldorph & David Aaronovitch

This series was first published on 2 August 2021.

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Andrew returns to Oxford to reveal the wounds that still remain following the seven-figure financial settlement. 

The woman who made an allegation against Martyn Percy speaks out, alleging intimidation by some of his supporters. 

And has Christ Church tried to hide the astronomical cost of the feud?

Host: Andrew Billen, feature writer, The Times.

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Breaking point as the college dons question Martyn Percy’s mental capacity.

He accuses them of smear campaigns, and an ill-judged essay likening his plight to Nazi persecution triggers outrage. 

Costs soar, reputations crumble, and the University of Oxford itself is forced to intervene. 

After four long years, a deal is struck. But at what cost?

Host: Andrew Billen, feature writer, The Times.

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Christ Church stalls when a student asks for protection, yet when Martyn Percy is accused of impropriety he is suspended within days. 

What at first appeared a battle over different styles of governance now carries the stain of misconduct - and divisions widen within the college.

Host: Andrew Billen, feature writer, The Times.

Clips: ITV, BBC, Sky News.

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A stabbing, a scandal, and a battle over job descriptions. 

Andrew exposes the bureaucratic dispute that spirals into bitter war between Martyn Percy and Christ Church’s governing body. 

Behind the formal manners and age-old statutes, a plot is being devised to oust the dean at any cost.

Host: Andrew Billen, feature writer, The Times.

Clips: Walt Disney Studios

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Christ Church, Oxford: a bastion of higher education since the 16th century that produced some of the country’s best and brightest, and is home to a very British way of life. 

When The Very Reverend Martyn Percy - a reformer from a working-class background - was appointed dean in 2014, everything looked promising. Until it didn’t. 

Andrew Billen explores the city's dreaming spires to find out why.

Host: Andrew Billen, feature writer, The Times

Clips: BBC

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